Archives for 2022

Parmesh S Jain

Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) officials on Monday busted another international drug racket and arrested a 35-year-old man at Bengaluru Railway Station and seized 16 kg of heroin worth Rs.112 crore which he had concealed in a specially designed cavity of the trolly bag he was carrying.

Senior officer told reporters The accused hails from Karnataka-Kerala border had landed in Bengaluru airport by morning flight from Addis Ababa,Ethiopia,and was on his way to New Delhi by train,when based on a specific inputs,the DRI officials traced him at the KSR railway station and arrested him.

The accused had gone to business visa for a week and was assigned the job by a gang to handover the trolley bag to a person soon after landing at Delhi railway station.

The accused was also given a phone number to call him as soon as getting down and given huge sum of money for the job plus the tickets.This is probably the biggest seizure the DRI,Bengaluru unit has made so far,sources said.

Earlier on Wednesday the DRI officials based on profiling ad analysis caught a 30-year-old African national and recovered Rs.11 crore of cocaine in the form of capsules which he had consumed .

The drug was recovered after giving him medical procedure to recover the drugs.The accused,is a career and had visited the city on tourist visa from Adis Ababa.

His handler told him to meet his contact in Delhi and handover the consignment to him.The officials suspect that they are part of the international gang working as careers to supply the drugs to a syndicate operating in Delhi .

Parmesh S Jain

In a shocking incident,a dentist threw her four-year-old daughter from the fourth floor of the residential apartment and faked attempt to end her life in Sampangiram nagar on Thursday.

The accused has been identified as,Sushma Bharadwaj a dentist by profession.

The deceased has been identified as,Jeeti 4 year old.

However the CCTV camera installed at the apartment captured the entire incident and the police after verification arrested the accused identified as Sushma Bharadwaj charging her under murder.

Senior officer told reporters the accused a dentist by qualification and home maker married to Kiran,a techie 12 years ago .

The couple had a baby girl and the baby had speech impairment since two years.She was under medication and Sushma was upset about it .

On Thursday evening she was strolling on the balcony outside her house carrying the baby and threw her before climbing on the railing and shouting for help at the CKC garden Aditya apartment .

The neighbors rushed her to help and pulled her to the safety.

Meanwhile the baby was crashed on the ground lying in a pool of blood was picked up by a resident and given first aid before rushing her to a private hospital before and later shifted to NIMHANS where she succumbed.

Based on the intimation from the hospital the police rushed to the spot and questioned the couple.

Following a complaint by Kiran,the SR Nagar police arrested Sushma charging her under murder.

Prima Facie investigations revealed that the mother was not happy related to the health issue of the daughter and said to have committed the crime he added.

Parmesh S Jain

In an effort to manage the traffic and free flow of traffic outside the schools and educational Institutions in and around the city,the traffic police on Wednesday launched a special drive to rope in security guards to the institution concerned to train them to manage the traffic flow effectively.

Security staff of many school in the Traffic West division have been trained on traffic control and signals to handle the traffic and ensure the students and staff are safe .

The police also conducted awareness drives on parking of private vehicles,school vans and buses leads to congestion.

The drive was launched following a series of complaints on the traffic police social media account that the motorists are affected due to traffic jam in front of the schools across the city during the peak hours.

The police have advised the school staff and security personnel to ensure that no schools vehicles are parked outside or around an educational institution’s premises except when students are getting boarding and getting down for few seconds .

The security guards have been trained to manage the traffic and ensure that there are no jams outside the school and ensure free flow of traffic, a senior police officer, said .

However though many schools also started following the instructions,the police are not focusing on the other issues of blatant violations of traffic rules.

Majority of the parents and even the school staff do not wear helmets or seat belts when they come to pick up their kids.

However senior police officers opined that there main focus is to ensure smooth flow of traffic and de-congestion.

Ensuring road discipline may end up traffic chaos and the whole purpose of free flow of traffic on peak hour may backfire .

Drive against footpath encroachment :

Meanwhile the Rajajinagar police on Thursday booked a mechanic and a push cart vendor for encroaching the footpath and endangering the safety of pedestrians .

The accused Noushad Baig,41 and Mohammed Saifulla,44 were arrested for repeat offence as even though they were booked earlier under section 283 (Causing danger,obstruction or, injury in any public way or line of navigation)and given warning twice, they continue to encroach the footpath by parking the vehicles and keeping their wares .

The duo was later released on station bail and warned to confiscate the vehicles next time if they continue to violate,BR Ravikanthe Gowda, Joint Commissioner of Police ( traffic), said .

Parmesh S Jain

The State cabinet has approved the Karnataka R & D Policy which seeks to give a big boost for research and innovation from garage level to institutional level,Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said.

The Chief Minister was speaking at the 3rd Edition of ‘Sankalp Se Siddhi’ Conference in which Union Home Minister Amit Shah too participated.

Bengaluru is home to over 400 R&D centres of international repute from Genomics to aerospace sector. No other city in the world could boast of such a huge presence of R&D centres,Bommai said.

Contribution of industries for Karnataka’s progress

We have formulated an Employment Policy which seeks to incentivise the industries for the number of jobs provided,similarly the state has prepared Semiconductor Policy,Electric Vehicle Policy and Renewable Energy Policy.

Karnataka has signed MoUs for a total investment of Rs.110 lakh crores in renewable energy sector. Production of Hydrogen fuel, production of Ammonia from the sea water is being taken up in the state.

Industries have contributed immensely for the development of Karnataka and the state has always recognised it.

Let us all work unitedly to create the Amrit Kaal as envisioned by our Prime Minister Narendra Modi,Bommai said.

State’s contribution for India’s $5 Trillion economy

Karnataka is in the forefront in contributing for the development of the country.It has been a progressive state in the fields of development, education,health,commerce and technology since the days of the Maharajas.

Karnataka is surging ahead of western nations in IT,BT and high-tech sectors.We have a target of contributing $1 Trillion for India’s mission of emerging as a $5 Trillion economy.Sectoral plans are being formulated to achieve this,Bommai said.

Karnataka has made huge strides in agriculture too.The state has 10 agro climatic zones.Apart from providing food security it also contributes to economic security.So entrepreneurs should concentrate on the farm sector too,Bommai said.

Atma Nirbhar Bharat

The nation has passed through many ups and downs in its 75 year long journey after independence.

The challenges posed to our democracy were defeated with the inherent strength of our people.

The Make in India policy has strengthened the nation. The Atma Nirbhar policy has boosted the confidence of people of the country.

Prime Minister Modi has instilled that confidence among the people.The hope and confidence which has been instilled in the hearts of the last man in the country is the strength of the nation.

This is reflected in ‘Sab Ka Saath,Sab Ka Vikaas’ policy of the Prime Minister and strong leadership of Union Home Minister Amit Shah,he said.

The Dr R Balasubrahmanya headed committee submitted the draft Youth Policy to Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai today.

Speaking on the occasion the Chief Minister said, the youth constitute 4% of the country’s population.

We need to engage them in nation building tasks. Youth need to be empowered through economic development.

There is also a need to focus on their personality development. In this regard Youth Budget would be formulated in the next budget.

The draft Youth Policy would be implemented after getting it approved by the state cabinet soon,Bommai added.

Sharing the highlights of the draft policy, Dr Balasubrahmanya said,it is youth-centric with an objective sustained development of the youth of the state.

Swamy Vivekananda Yuvashakthi Yojane

The state government also signed an MoU on the occasion with the State Bank of India,which is the Anchor Bank for Swamy Vivekananda Yuvashakthi Scheme, to extend loan services for the Youth Self Help Groups under the scheme for self employment programmes.

The scheme is being implemented with an objective of forming youth self help groups in every village, impart vocational training to take up self employment with seed money and market assistance.

Youth Empowerment and Sports minister Narayan Gowda, ministers V Somanna, Ashwathnarayan,Shivaram Hebbar and senior officials were present.

BENGALURU: The state government, through an order on Thursday, almost doubled the cost limit for certain higher levels of bureaucrats to purchase official vehicles, adding to the burden on the exchequer.
The order, issued by the Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms undersecretary, states that senior officials, starting from the additional chief secretary, principal Secretary and heads of various departments, can now buy more expensive cars with the enhanced limit.

The additional chief secretary, principal secretary, secretary and secretary-rank officials can now buy cars costing up to Rs 20 lakh, while the earlier limits was Rs 14 lakh. Similarly, deputy commissioners, chief executive officers of zilla panchayats, session court judges, superintendents of police and city police commissioners can now buy cars for Rs 18 lakh, while the previous ceiling was Rs 9 lakh.

Senior police and other officials at the district level can buy vehicles for Rs 12.5 lakh, up from Rs 6.5 lakh, while other senior officials at the tahsildar rank can go up to Rs 9 lakh. All the prices announced exclude many taxes.

A senior DPAR official,requesting anonymity, said there was a demand to increase the price limits for vehicles, especially high-end cars. “It had been more than five years since we had revised the limits. This order is not applicable to ministers and other cabinet rank political leaders,” he added.

Karnataka State Government Employees’ Association president Shadakshari said this is a routine exercise.
“As the cost of cars has increased and the government’s fixed price was making it difficult for officials to buy at that rate, the government revised it” he added.

But other government officials said, “The state witnessed a big dip in revenues over the last two years, especially last year. There are many essentials that need to be taken care of on priority, including the recruitment of staff and clearing of contractors’ pending bills. Over 2.5 lakh posts in government departments are lying vacant, forcing the existing staff to put in additional hours. This was not needed at present,” said a senior official from the secretariat.

• Epidemic Diseases Hospital and Wenlock identified as designated hospitals for Monkeypox.
• Strict vigil in districts bordering Kerala; thermal screening at Airports.

There is no need to panic about Monkeypox.Govt is taking all precautionary measures including thermal screening at airports and strict surveillance in districts bordering Kerala,said health minister Dr.K.Sudhakar.

Speaking to media after the high level meeting chaired by CM Basavaraj Bommai on Monkeypox Dr.Sudhakar said,WHO has declared monkeypox as global monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) on 22nd July.

About 20,000 cases have been reported in 80 countries across the world.Six case shave been reported in India so far including 4 in Kerala and 2 in Delhi.

No cases have been reported in Karnataka so far. There were 3 suspects out of which two in Bengaluru have turned out negative and another suspect,a Belgium National,found in Uttara Kannada district is subjected to test and his report is awaited.”

Epidemic Diseases Hospital in Bengaluru and Wenlock hospital in Mangaluru are identified as designated hospitals for isolation of monkeypox suspects.

Confirmed cases will be isolated and treated for 21 days until the rashes on skin are cured, minister said.

Fever,rashes on skin,swelling of lymph nodes are common symptoms of monkey pox and our govt has already issued circular for mandatory thermal screening at airports and other entry points.

All district administrations have been alerted and instructed to take precautionary measures and particularly strict vigil is kept on districts bordering Kerala.

Studies indicate that monkey pox is not as contagious as covid and it spreads only when a person is in prolonged contact with the infected person. However I appeal to people to maintain hygiene and follow all precautionary measures.